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Plans for the Olympic Athletic Club to turn adjacent property on Ballard Avenue into a $14 million, 29-room boutique hotel are back underway after trouble with financing the project caused delays.

Construction for the hotel was originally…MORE

The Seattle City Council last week voted unanimously to place a six-year, $145 million Parks and Green Spaces Levy on November's ballot.

The Council voted in favor of a levy package that would fund acquiring parks and green belts;…MORE

A local woman's quest to save a house has been put on hold because available land is scarce in Seattle.

Margaret Todd wants to recycle the house previously owned by the 7th Elect Church of Israel, which sits on the land recently purchased…MORE

In 2006 Tryg Littlefield and his three band mates quit their jobs. Littlefield gave up the home he'd purchased in West Seattle seven years earlier for a life of couch-surfing and Top Ramen dining. All this for the chance to tour and play his…MORE

Mayor Greg Nickels has announced new proposed regulations for building townhomes, spurring concern from builders worried about the impact on future developments.

Covering 10 percent of the city, newer townhomes have been an ongoing sore…MORE

With a grand reopening on July 25, Westfield Southcenter in Tukwila celebrated a $240 million expansion that makes it the largest indoor mall in Washington and Oregon.

Gov. Chris Gregoire and Tukwila Mayor Jim Haggerton were among the…MORE

"She was David in a Goliath story" is how Kathryn Fairchild described Elda Behm, a friend and a stand-in-grandmother to her, during a memorial service for Behm on July 19.

Behm, "Paradise Garden" creator, died July 13. Behm created the…MORE

Last year at Des Moines Beach Park, Gov. Chris Gregoire signed legislation creating the Puget Sound Partnership tasked with the job of cleaning up Puget Sound.

On July 24, Gregoire returned to the park, as part of a two-day, seven-stop…MORE

According Washington State University's Center for Real Estate Research, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in King County is $900 a month.

The yearly salary for a first-year teacher in the Highline School District is $32,000.

Hidden in a small garage in an obscure and wooded corner of SeaTac are miniature cities and gardens inhabited by countless people, many smaller than your pinky finger.

These are the clay creations of 60-year-old animator, Bruce Bickford.…MORE